William Landay Quotes

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.

I think love is one of the most elusive things in the world. I don't know that there's a perfect formula for it and that's what makes the stories interesting.

But love may have to be left off the exam. Most of us will never learn.

Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way, it notates a mystery. That kind of mystery exists in relationships. A lifetime is not enough to know someone else. It provides a brief glimpse.

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.

I think what you learn from relationships is that they are unpredictable.

In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.

I am a simple man, though my wife says I am complicated. I'll trust her on that one.

Sometimes, we only get to know someone as one aspect of who they are. Then you start peeling back the layers and understanding more and more about who they are - their vulnerabilities, their fears, their joys, all those other words that equal humanity.

It is impossible to tell you what is consisted in the act of love.

The thing with perfection is that it's never perfect.

We think love is noble, and in some ways, it is. But in some ways, it isn't. Love is just love. And sometimes people do terrible things because of it.

We don't fall in love with perfect people. We fall in love with complex ones.

It’s never simple.” Avery slid an arm around Hope’s waist. “It shouldn’t be. Because being with someone should matter enough to be at least a little bit complicated.

Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular?

That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional.

No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would.

You can never know anyone as completely as you want. But that’s okay, love is better.

Even though you can't finally grasp me, guess what? I still want to be known.

In my experience women are like cats. When you don't want them you can't get rid of them and when you do want them it's like trying to pick up lint with a magnet.

If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.

Relationships are super complicated and always have dark and light in them. And all good sexual relationships do, too.